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The first excerpt is what the railroad used as its survey. The second excerpt is what Buena Vista Township used as its survey for a permit to its redevelopment project. I added annotations in red for interpretation.

Coffee won't help. This vignette is an based on a survey that the Pinelands Commission paid $35,000 for, and was here replicated for Pinelands Application #2009-0089.001. The original survey funds came directly from mitigation money earmarked for protecting Pinelands water quality when the...

OK, this location is about 2 miles from the Cumberland County border, but it demonstrates an interesting surveying enigma. Any care to guess as to what is going on here?

Pretty darn good, but not "great." Beers 1872, Topographic Map of Atlantic County, New Jersey, from recent and actual surveys.

Johnnyb, Is there cast iron pipe conduit at any of the branch crossings? If so, maybe this could be its namesake. We too have a sand track that is sometimes referred to as an iron pipe road, so named for the embankments with old cast iron pipe water conduit. It was also called an ore road...

Spung is Piney speak for the thousands of intermittent pools of water that dot the Pine Barrens. Rhodehamel (1970) estimated that 2% of the Pine Barrens surface is covered by these closed basins. Everyone who grew up in the Pines knew what a spung is – a pocket of water. The name’s origin is...

I’ve been a card-carrying member of the NJ Farm Bureau since 1984, so receive their newsletter. Agriculture is in my DNA. This Week in the Farm Bureau (July 31, 2015, p.1) contained a note Candidate Christie excerpted from the national blog Agri-Post. This is what Christie recently told Iowa...

Here's a new paper by a dear colleague—a friend of the Pleistocene—that helps explain why NJ's sea-level-rise rate appears twice that of other areas. Not only did that rampageous thug the Laurentide Ice Sheet freeze-dry the Pine Barrens, that behemoth sunk the Earth's crust north of us and we...

Bob, the periglacial domain is a difficult concept! Large areas of the Earth's land surface have been dominated by cold, dry, windy, and dusty—periglacial—conditions for much of the last couple million years. That's the planet's normal. Icebergs floated off the North Carolina coast. Europeans...

The term ‘periglacial’ was coined in 1909 by Walery von Lozinski to describe the intense weathering of sandstone in the Carpathian Mountains of Poland. The Carpathians is where my mom’s side of the family is from (Lemko people, a Ukrainian sub-group). Lozinski noted cracked boulder fields like...

A lot of lichen-dominated open areas in the Pinelands are are windblown sand piles like dunes or coversand (flat sheets of sand). These landforms were generated under cold, nonglacial (periglacial) conditions during the Pleistocene when an immense ice sheet parked in North Jersey. My house is...

While making tea this morning a piebald deer appeared right outside my dining room window. The wife and I scrambled to find a camera, only to have the flash go off and ruin any chance of a close-up. Boots went on and I was able to salvage the opportunity with a distant photo (piebald marked by...

Hats off to Pat Martinelli, Tom Kinsella, Jerseyman, the Vineland Historical Society, and Stockton University's South Jersey Culture and History Center for a job well done. Charles K. Landis, founder in part of the Pinelands towns of Elwood (1854, including New Germany – today Folsom – and...

Bucky, Route 40 was laid out at 3-rods wide between Downstown and May Landing in 1817 (Gloucester County Book B, Page 207). The old Egg Harbour/Cohansey trail was its predecessor. The name Buena Vista Avenue was used on the 1870 Landisville survey, a proposed county seat for a new county to be...

Thursday night, June 25 – electric! Much better than the 10-day blackout associated with the June 29, 2012 derecho.

Yet again, it's back to the stone age. Not much tree damage, but 500 homes on our trunk are scheduled to be without phone and electric service until Saturday, June 27. Posting at the Atlantic County Library in Mays Landing. S-M

Like Milmay's "Cannon Range" tract, https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/pine-barrens-unusual-names.10547/page-2#post-126562 Atsion also was a proving ground candidate, but deemed too swampy.

Could the stippling indicate a boulderfield (frost-fractured rubble)?

I too worry about the inevitable. Development policy needs to be driven by science, not politics. If past behavior is relevant then we have not reached our normal interglacial highstand. That shoreline can be seen here on LiDAR imagery as a bathtub ring around the Delaware Bay...

Yep, my bank has a branch.